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Gibson's top 50 guitarists of all time |
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YESESIS 
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 Posted: January 27 2018 at 00:02 |
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Where is Randy Rhoads? So Lou Reed was a better guitarist than Randy Rhoads or Steve Vai... or Carlos Santana!
Edit: Kurt Cobain was better than those guys too I see. Wow Edited by YESESIS - January 27 2018 at 00:04 |
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: January 27 2018 at 02:31 |
He's right behind Fred Durst at #51
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iluvmarillion
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Posted: January 27 2018 at 03:37 |
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I agree the list makes no sense. How often does Gilmour play a Gibson? Doesn't he mainly play a Fender Stratocaster? And both Steve Howe and Steve Hackett should be high on the list as they both prefer their Gibsons. Also, while I think Prince should be on any guitar list I don't he plays Gibsons either, does he? He plays all those fancy custom guitars, doesn't he (or does Gibson make them for him do they)?
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Davesax1965
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Posted: January 27 2018 at 03:45 |
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Gibson are just about to go bankrupt.
Mainly because they run their business with the same logic with which they construct polls. |
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micky
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Posted: January 27 2018 at 06:25 |
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*spits coffee all over monitor*
29. Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers, Derek and the Dominos) and who put this list together... Fender people... couldn't be GIBSON people...
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mechanicalflattery
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Posted: January 27 2018 at 08:04 |
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While this (eight year old) list doesn't ultimately work either way, I'd have to know whether its creators were gauging talent or mere quality of music and influence. If the former, then this is purely irredeemable. If the latter, then the list becomes slightly less egregious. Is Lou Reed a better guitarist than Al Di Meola? Absolutely not. But would I pick The Velvet Underground over Return To Forever any day? Absolutely. Perhaps a tenuous argument could be made that Reed's playing was more effective, hence "better" artistically. Either way, some of these inclusions and many of the omissions remain unforgivable (in this list created eight freakin' years ago).
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micky
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Posted: January 27 2018 at 08:26 |
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pffff on amateurs.... here is the best you'll ever see...
1. Jimi Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix Experence, Band of Gypsys, session work)
2. Jeff Beck (The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group, session work, solo) 3. Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen) 4. Eric Clapton (The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & The Dominos, solo) 5. Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, The Firm, session work) 6. Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night) 7. Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath, solo) 8. Chuck Berry (solo) 9. Scotty Moore (Elvis Presley) 10. Duane Allman (Allman Brothers Band, Derek & The Dominos, session work) 11. Robert Fripp (King Crimson, session work, solo) 12. Steve Howe (Yes, Asia, the Syndicats, solo) 13. Brian May (Queen, solo) 14. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd, solo) 15. Carlos Santana (Santana, solo) 16. Pete Townshend (The Who, solo) 17. Steve Cropper (Booker T & the MG's, Mar-Keys, Blues Brothers Band, session work) 18. Steve Vai (Frank Zappa, Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, solo) 19. Yngwie Malmsteen (Steeler, Alcatrazz, solo) 20. Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, solo) 21. Eric Johnson (The Electromagnets, solo) 22. Joe Satriani (solo, Chickenfoot) 23. Danny Gatton (solo, session work, Redneck Jazz Explosion) 24. Roy Buchanan (solo, session work) 25. Steve Hackett (Genesis, solo) 26. Phil Keaggy (Glass Harp, solo) 27. Jan Akkerman (Focus, solo) 28. Alex Lifeson (Rush) 29. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits, solo) 30. Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones, solo) 31. George Harrison (The Beatles, solo) 32. Randy Rhoads (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne) 33. Uli Jon Roth (Scorpions, solo) 34. Michael Schenker (Scorpions, UFO, MSG) 35. Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, solo) 36, 37, & 38. Joe Messina / Robert White* / Eddie Willis (The Funk Brothers) 39. James Burton (Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley, session work) 40. Link Wray (solo) 41. Jimmy Nolen* (The J.B.'s, Johnny Otis Band, Maceo & All the King's Men) 42. Lonnie Mack (solo, session work) 43. Dick Dale (solo) 44. Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, solo, session work) 45. Marty Friedman (Cacophony, Megadeth, solo) 46. Cliff Gallup (Gene Vincent's Blue Caps) 47. Dickey Betts (Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts Band) 48. Shawn Lane (Black Oak Arkansas, The Willys, HLS, solo) 49. Hank Marvin (The Shadows) 50. Bo Diddley (solo) 51. Curtis Mayfield* (Impressions, solo) 52. Frank Zappa* (Mothers Of Invention, solo) 53 & 54. Thurston Moore / Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) 55. Terry Kath (Chicago) 56. Eddie Hazel (Funkadelic, solo) 57. Rory Gallagher* (solo) 58. Tommy Bolin (Deep Purple, session work, solo) 59. Slash (Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit, Velvet Revolver, session work) 60. Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule) 61. Andy Summers (The Police, session work, solo) 62. Mick Ronson (The Spiders From Mars, session work, solo) 63 & 64. Glenn Tipton / K.K. Downing (Judas Priest) 65. Steve Lukather (Toto, session work) 66. Neal Schon (Santana, Journey) 67. John Petrucci (Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, solo) 68 & 69. Dave Murray / Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) 70 & 71. James Hetfield / Kirk Hammett (Metallica) 72. Johnny Marr (The Smiths) 73. The Edge (U2) 74. Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) 75. Leslie West (Mountain) 76. Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) 77. Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big, Racer X, solo) 78. Buckethead (solo, Praxis, Guns N' Roses) 79. Vinnie Moore (UFO, Alice Cooper, solo) 80. Tony MacAlpine (M.A.R.S., Planet X, Ring Of Fire, CAB, solo) 81 & 82. Angus Young / Malcolm Young (AC/DC) 83. Ray Gomez (session work, solo, Los Pop Tops, Stanley Clarke) 84. Michael Landau (session work, Raging Honkies, Michael Landau Group) 85. Carl Verheyen (session work, Supertramp, Carl Verheyen Band) 86. Adrian Belew (King Crimson, solo) 87. Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) 88. Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, solo) 89 & 90. Dave Davies / Ray Davies (The Kinks) 91. Neil Young (Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, solo) 92 & 93. Scott Gorham / Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy) 94. Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) 95. Guthrie Govan (Asia, Erotic Cakes, The Fellowship, solo) 96. Derek Trucks (The Allman Brothers Band, Frogwings, Derek Trucks Band) 97. Big Jim Sullivan (session work) 98. Mickey Baker (session work, Mickey & Sylvia) 99. Robin Trower (Procol Harum, solo) 100. Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) Edited by micky - January 27 2018 at 08:29 |
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Jzrk
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Posted: January 28 2018 at 19:35 |
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No list will please everyone
Too many great guitarists and too subjective and driven by the genres you love best |
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: January 28 2018 at 20:50 |
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These kinds of lists are pathetic! Most of the best guitarists are relatively unknown because they are too advanced for the non-musicians ears to understand.
I could make my own list but i have no idea how to evaluate "better." Yes, there are technical wizards with no soul and soulful wizards with no tech skills. I did see a great list a while back that simply pinpointed moments in history where a guitarist innovated something unthought of at the time. That was more relevant i think. I did make a list of guitarists whom i find to be the most technical and creative at the same time while having lots of soul. Here's my list on Rate Your Music Edited by siLLy puPPy - January 28 2018 at 20:51 |
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Mortte
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Posted: January 28 2018 at 23:12 |
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What sticks into my eye is Robert Johnson in that list. Yes, he has Gibson one of the only photos of him, but there is no evidence it´s his guitar. People who saw him has said he played Stella, Kalamazoo and National guitars. Gibson guitars were just so expensive to the blues musicians.
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: January 29 2018 at 02:11 |
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted: January 29 2018 at 05:42 |
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siLLy puPPy
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Doesn't seem to be working.
You'll have to copy past this into your browser. Since this site censorts the word w-a-n-k-e-r-y you need to add an A between the 'w' and 'n' on the last word. What a pain. https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/pleasing-and-not-cheesing-guitar-shred-w nkery/ Edited by siLLy puPPy - January 29 2018 at 08:29 |
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Posted: January 29 2018 at 08:39 |
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Hi, Micky ... I would like to add to the list Ax Genrich and John Weinzierl and Richard Pinhas and Michael Karoli ... and if time allows, Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet). All in all, the list is put together by people that have only heard a top ten bunch of songs, and they would not know music from a broken toy piano. I just find it weird ... that we even bother responding to such trash!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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micky
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Posted: January 29 2018 at 19:11 |
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excellent suggestions Pedro!... especially Karoli. Though I adore Genrich's and Weinzeirl's playing... Karoli is the only one I could really see that could crack a top 100.... I can come up with a good number of Italian guitarists that absolutely rule... and completely dig... Rustici being prime among those. but really only Karoli was one that could muster up the overall influence to crack the top 100. Most might not recognize his name.. any more than any of the other great guitarists from the continent.. but they'd know it through the massive musical influence of his music through his group.
As I said... I think that is hte best list out there. The more so that work went on that list for nearly 6 years after I left that work and came over here to PA's. It was a product of a lot of time and thought. Which lists like the OP put up.. had neither of....
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Posted: January 31 2018 at 07:23 |
Manuel Gottsching ... Ash Ra Tempel and Ashra. |
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Posted: January 31 2018 at 08:45 |
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Posted: May 31 2018 at 20:58 |
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Randy Rhoads really deserved a better spot than that.
Edited by CodyLee03 - May 31 2018 at 21:00 |
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Posted: May 31 2018 at 23:57 |
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......and Craig Chaquico should’ve been on the list (his allegiance with Carvin notwithstanding)......Damn fine guitarist !!
Edited coz ‘spell check’ doesn’t  Edited by Tom Ozric - May 31 2018 at 23:58 |
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No John Martyn? Really?
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